Posted June 15, 2023 by ChellayTiger
Hello everyone! So in a few months, I'll have been having my Patreon page up for a year now which is kinda exciting but also a bit nerve-wracking if that makes sense? Anyways, I've been thinking about the patron tiers for a bit and I've always been conflicted on Advanced and Blooming Tier benefits. Most of my patrons are Basic tier and that's fine as most people are just interested in the early builds. However, I need incentives for people to become Advanced or Blooming Tier patrons as what would be the point of their existence? Over the past few months, I've been playing around with the benefits of these two tiers. This year I've started making erotic art of various fictional characters and that seems to do fairly well. However, I've been a bit dissatisfied with providing these benefits to my lovely patrons. It's hard enough working on BYH, but I also have to work on these different things such as extra art or commentary and it's a bit stressful. Managing the PSD files is a pain because I have to update the PSD files every time I changed anything in the files and I had to keep updating the patrons who had access to them. The monthly erotic artwork was also getting stale to work on because there are only so many times you can draw a guy getting fucked in the ass and I also ran out of ideas of which characters to draw which is why the polls might seem a bit random. The thing is I don't get much positive feedback on these extra Patreon benefits so it's a bit demotivating to work on them. Now here's where things get a bit interesting. So as you know, By Your Hands is in the Queer Games Bundle and it has some of those same patron benefits. Here are the download numbers from it:
As you can see here, the Photoshop files are popular while the Tappei art pack is less popular. This is a much smaller sample size from the bigger more available game so they aren't exactly the most reliable, but they do tell me something. There is an interest in all those Patreon extras that I was doubting people wanted. So I should continue making them. But I still want feedback. Here is what I'd like to do from July onwards:
You can take the survey here.
I think people would like at least the last three and a half, but I'm not sure about the first one and a half. That's why I'd like your feedback. Please take it as this will impact my Patreon. After a week has passed I will take all the responses in mind and make an announcement on what changes to my Patreon I'll make. Then these changes will come into effect in July. I hope you take this survey and I wish you good well.
See you later and have a good day!